A champion in decline: from the Olympic gold, there are no motivations and physical condition. Nole seems to take the field only to honor the contract, with the sole goal of the Slam, but how much can it last again?
Without taking anything away from Arnaldi’s company, which has shown technical maturity and mental solidity, it is clear that the defeat suffered in Madrid by Novak Djokovic lengthens sinister shadows on the future also next of the formidable Serbian champion. The seasonal numbers, the final of Miami aside, begin to be merciless: four eliminations to the first game of the tournament (Doha, Indian Wells, Montecarlo and Madrid) and the feeling that it is now unable to react to the first complications that the match offers him. Against blue, yesterday, a player was certainly late for physical condition, in difficulty in those frontal and lateral movements that have always been his author brand, as well as not very resistant in the cross -country exchanges and with a ball speed often not able to worry the opponent.